2010 Arnaud Ente Meursault Clos des Ambres- France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Meursault (3/23/2017)
Incredibly youthful, direct and powerful. There’s struck match, pure white peach, nougat and mineral on the nose. It is dense, chewy, focused and sappy in the mouth. It has great drive and citrus cut and length is outstanding. It is very Cochey.
Great producer!
His wines are getting harder to find, but still reasonably priced.
You need to try La Seve du Clos. Outstanding. Only produced mags in 2014.
From what I can see they are no longer reasonably priced, having gone through the roof over the last few vintages. Likewise the secondary market for Ente’s wines has skyrocketed in recent months. Wish I had a deeper stockpile!
Jeremy,
Thanks for the note. As I recall, I was introduced to the domaine when Arnaud Mortet’s wife poured the wines at Villa D’est almost ten years ago. I though they were really good but didn’t bother to look for them. Oh well, my loss.
i have also noticed a sharp increase in pricing especially in auctions as of late. i wonder what has influenced this surge in interest as previously it was quite easy to pick these up on close out at very fair tariffs.
I’ve had a couple of bottles of the basic 2014 Meursault and they are stunning young bottles. One was opened and we tried on the next day- even better.
I think they are being seen as the next Domaine to join the premier league of White Burgundy producers. There’s been a big jump in secondary prices for Coche and Roulot with Ente now, sadly, following suit.
It’s been coche-like popular in France for a while now. Was at tan dinh in paris last night and they’re selling their Ente at higher prices than coche.
Well, its not because of the amount of new oak used.
I will be the last to argue against the superb quality of Roulot’s wines, but I would like to see an Ente wine in one of Don Cornwell’s white Burgundy vintage assessments. (Cherisey’s Meursault Blagny Genelotte recently hung right with Roulot’s Perrieres.) I expect that it would have a lot of grand crus ducking for cover, and it wouldn’t have to be a 1er cru. I’d also like to see an Ente Perrieres, which I expect would be the equivalent of those of Roulot and Coche.